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Google Announces Machine Learning Powered API Abuse Detection
Google recently announced an API abuse detection dashboard powered by machine learning algorithms.
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Late Architecture with Functional Programming
Many approaches to software architecture assume that the architecture is planned at the beginning. Unfortunately, architecture planned in this way is hard to change later. Functional programming can help achieve loose coupling to the point that advance planning can be kept to a minimum, and architectural decisions can be changed later.
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IDPs with Poor User Experience are Destined to Fail
User Experience design is of paramount importance for implementing an Internal Developer Platform, finds Fernando Villalba. In a comprehensive blog post detailing what great design and UX (user experience) means, Villalba expands on how to leverage these best to build an IDP (internal developer platform) that is user-friendly and hence more likely to be adopted widely.
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New Visual Studio Code Data Mapper for Azure Logic Apps
Microsoft recently announced a new data mapper for Azure Logic Apps available as a Visual Studio Code extension. The mapper capability is currently in public preview.
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AWS Updates the Well-Architected Framework
AWS recently released an update to the Well-Architected Framework. The new version strengthens prescriptive guidance with over 100 best practices updated across all six pillars of the framework.
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Svelte Furthers Enterprise Readiness with SvelteKit General Availability and Svelte 4 Roadmap
Svelte, consistently voted the Web framework with the highest retention among the top 4 frameworks (next to React, Angular, and Vue), furthers enterprise readiness with SvelteKit's general availability, a new interactive documentation site, and the Svelte 4 roadmap.
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Real-Time Messaging Architecture at Slack
Slack recently described how it sends millions of messages daily in real-time across the globe. The company provides a comprehensive insight into its architecture, designed to manage real-time messages at scale. It highlights the unique challenges posed by delivering real-time messages across different time zones and regions and how Slack's engineers designed the infrastructure to handle them.
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EventMesh Serverless Platform Promoted to Apache Top-Level Project
Apache EventMesh is a fully serverless platform used to build distributed event-driven applications and last month has graduated to Top-Level Project of Apache Software Foundation. EventMesh uses a publish/subscribe pattern to enable serverless, event-driven capabilities for a wide variety of components and applications
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HashiCorp Policy-as-Code Framework Sentinel Adds Multiple Developer Experience Improvements
HashiCorp has released a number of improvements to Sentinel, their policy-as-code framework. The new features include an improved import configuration syntax, a new static import feature, support for named functions, and per-policy parameter values. There are also new helper functions to determine if a value is undefined.
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Improving Web Accessibility with Semantic HTML and Testing Techniques and Tools
Web accessibility benefits all of us. Designers, developers, and testers can check for web accessibility and can make the web and services more inclusive, for instance by using semantic HTML, following web standards when coding, and testing for web accessibility. Countries are introducing regulations to enforce inclusive standards.
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Web Framework Astro Now Features Static, Server, and Hybrid Rendering for Faster Web Sites
HTML-first web framework Astro recently released Astro 2.0 and complements previously available static and dynamic server rendering with new hybrid rendering capabilities. Hybrid rendering allows prerendering specific pages for faster performance.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 21 Release Schedule, Payara Platform, JBang, JHipster, WildFly
This week's Java roundup for March 27th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 21, GlassFish 7.0.3, Spring point and milestone releases, Payara Platform, Quarkus 3.0.CR1, Micronaut 3.8.8, WildFly 28 Beta1, Hibernate ORM 6.2, Groovy 4.0.11, Camel 3.20.3, James 3.7.4, Eclipse Vert.x 4.4.1, JHipster Quarkus Blueprint 2.0, JHipster Lite 0.30, JBang 0.106, Gradle 8.1-CR2 and new Foojay.io calendar.
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The Web's Next Transition: Kent C. Dodds at QCon London
Software engineer educator Kent C. Dodds opened the Modern Frontend Development and Architecture track at QCon London with his keynote on The Web’s Next Transition, focused on Modern Infrastructure and Techniques.
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Rebecca Parsons - Thoughtworks CTO: by 2025 We'll See Evolution in Architecture, But Not Revolution
On the second day of the QCon London conference, Rebecca Parsons, chief technical officer at Thoughtworks, revisited the idea of evolutionary architecture imaging how it might evolve until 2025. Starting from the definition, she visited each of the definitory attributes anticipating how they will evolve in the next period. Concluding that we will see evolution, but not a revolution.
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The Commoditization of Software Stack: How Application-First Cloud Services are Changing the Game
Cloud services are evolving, which influences how developers build distributed applications. At QCon London, Bilgin Ibryam, product manager at Diagrid, discussed the intersection of cloud-native technologies like Dapr with developer-focused cloud services.